Featured Artist of the Month for February: O'Hooley & Tidow

O'Hooley & Tidow are our featured artists for the month and they release their new album 'The Hum' on 17th February. Read our review and watch their new video. We also have more on them this coming Monday.

Featured Artist of the Month for January: Nathaniel Rateliff

Nathaniel Rateliff was our artist for January and we featured a great interview with him in which he talked about his life, his music and his new album Falling Faster Than You Can Run.
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We have some great Albums of the Month with indepth reviews, interviews and more. They include:
* Henry Priestman – The Last Surge of Youth
* BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2014 (2 CD)
* The Men with Strong Arms – Sunshine Street
* Carrie Tree – Home To The Invisible
* Blazin’ Fiddles – Six
* Eddi Reader – Vagabond
* Beth Nielsen Chapman – Uncovered
* Gavin Marwick – The Long Road And The Far Horizons
* Adam Holmes and The Embers – Heirs And Graces
* The Gloaming
* the olllam
* Monster Ceilidh Band – Charge
* Paul Armfield – Up Here
* Adrian Crowley & James Yorkston – My Yoke Is Heavy: The Songs Of Daniel Johnston
* Blowzabella – Strange News
* Robb Johnson – Gentle Men

All of these are included in our covermount mix below.
To view our latest Albums of the Month click here.

We compiled a list of 92 of the best albums from 2013. The list is broken down into six parts with many previews to remind everyone how great the past year has been for music.
Read them here.

It's been a fantastic month for interviews. We talked with Inge Thomson about her new project Da Fishing Hands.

We also interviewed:

We've featured some great exclusive sessions recently including another great video session filmed by our good friends Baylis Gray:

Inge Thomson

Inge Thomson took some time out from Crows’ Bones for Baylis Gray to record this special session in which she performs ‘Cycle’ from her 2010 debut album Shipwrecks & Static. Watch it here.

The Great Park

We featured a great live session from Stephen Burch, better known to most as The Great Park. Listen to it here

Bob Meyer

We also featured the wonderful Bob Meyer recording an intimate late night session from his home. Listen here.

Tim Eriksen

And...a live set we recorded at Sidmouth Folk Festival in 2013 of Tim Eriksen which you can listen to here.

Lorcán Mac Mathúna wrote a special feature for FRUK on the 1000th anniversary of the Battle of Clontarf. You can read it here as well as hear a live recording from the Temple Bar TradFest by The Deep End of the Ford. Click here for more.

As usual we have tons of news which you can catch up on by clicking here

We featured a heap of exclusive premieres including:
* The Furrow Collective
* Fiction & Serafina Steer
* Stanley Brinks and The Wave Pictures
* Monoganon

We also have 33 new album reviews including Marissa Nadler, Damien Jurado, The Furrow Collective and many more. You can view a list of them here.

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To download our February Covermount Mix click here.

The tracklisting is below:
00:00 Adam Holmes - Monday Morning

03:42 Nathaniel Rateliff - Right On

08:47 Paul Armfield - The Morning After The Storm

12:51 O'hooley & Tidow - Kitsune

18:49 The Gloaming - The Necklace Of Wrens

22:30 Adrian Crowley & James Yorkston - My Yoke Is Heavy

26:34 Eddi Reader - Vagabond

30:39 Carrie Tree - Mama Kita

34:45 Blowzabella - Falco

39:46 Monster Ceilidh Band - Anti-Gravity

44:13 Blazin' Fiddles - The Diplodocus

49:41 Gavin Marwick - Balkan Red

53:23 Robb Johnson - Deeper Than Dugouts

55:17 Beth Nielsen Chapman - Strong Enough To Bend